Legend of the Sacred Stone

Director: Chris Huang

2000 / 90min / DCP

“In 1984, the wuxia series Pili debuted in Taiwan, and soon became one of the most popular TV shows of the ’80s. In 2000, the series spun off into The Legend of the Sacred Stone, a feature film rarely available to watch overseas in its full, original version, which follows an evil martial arts master who sets out to destroy the world, and the army of heroes who assemble to stop him. Most impressively, the story is told entirely with hand puppets, based on the centuries old po-te-hi style of puppet-based storytelling famous in China and brought to Taiwan by the Huang family. Director Huang is a fourth generation puppeteer, who shot the film on a 36,000 square foot soundstage, with energetic, lo-fi CGI deployed at breakneck speed on a vast set, and with Huang’s relative, Vincent Huang, doing all the voices.”—Subway Cinema